At the age of 19, over forty years ago, Ian Waterman developed the acute
sensory neuronopathy syndrome, losing large myelinated sensory nerve funct
ion below C3 level and leaving him without sensations of touch and movement
/position sense below the neck. His motor nerves and smaller sensory nerves
underpinning temperature and pain perceptions were unaffected.

The l
ecture will consider his functional rehabilitation, he spent nearly two yea
rs in hospital, learning to stand and walk and live independently, and the
neuroscience of movement without touch. Research discussed will include tha
t on his motor programmes, mental imagery, sense of effort, and use of gest
ure, together with his contribution to work on CT afferents and affective t
ouch.

Jonat
han Cole is a consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and
visiting professor at the University of Bournemouth. He trained in Oxford a
nd London. His empirical research has been in spinal cord injury and pain,
tremor, autonomic mechanisms and particularly in sensory loss and consequen
ces. He and subject Ian Waterman have worked together for over 25 years, in
both neuroscience work and on Ian’s biography, Pride and Daily M
arathon.

In addition to empirical research he also has an inter
est in the subjective experience of neurological impairment and worked with
Oliver Sacks in the US in the 1970’s. He has published several books
in this area About Face and Still Lives (on spinal cord
injury) and, with Henrietta Spalding, The Invisible Smile, (OUP),
on living without facial expression. He was also an executive editor of The Paradoxical Brain, (Kapur, et al, CUP 2012).

He is a past P
resident of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, was Chair of
the International Congress in Clinical Neurophysiology in 2006 in Edinburgh
and is a member of the European Chapter of the IFCN.